Ontario - Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing - The Brownfields Showcase Program is available to all Ontario Municipalities. Its purpose is to assist municipalities to identify a range of potential finance, liability and approvals tools available to support planning and redevelopment activities and to highlight the benefits that can be achieved when brownfield sites are redeveloped.
http://www.mah.gov.on.ca/business/brownfld/index.asp
Network for Industrially Contaminated Land in Europe (NICOLE)
A concerted action of the European Union encompassing company, industry, policy, and regulatory interests to better manage contaminated land and its risks
http://www.nicole.org/
The Westergasfabriek Factory was built on farmland on the outskirts of Amsterdam in 1883; it provided gas for street lighting. This continued until the discovery of large natural gas reserves in the north of Holland during the 1960's. Comprising originally of thirteen buildings, the factory complex was built in the then popular Dutch neo-renaissance style, with its distinct use of red brick and stepped gables.
http://www.westergasfabriek.nl/indexe.htm
Emscher Park Case Study (Germany)
The International Building Exhibition Emscher Park was established in 1989 as a structural programme of the Land North-Rhine/Westphalia scheduled to run for ten years. Its task is to achieve the ecological and urban renewal of the northern Ruhr district. Its aim is to 'tidy up the Ruhr district's backyard'
http://cities21.com/egpis/egpc-039.html
Toronto Waterfront Regeneration Trust, which has coordinated the International Brownfields Exchange)
http://www.waterfronttrust.com/docs/trustdoc/brwnflds.html
The OECD, which pulled together a series of case studies on brownfields redevelopment. Given the number of substantial brownfield redevelopment projects in recent years, an international, comparative survey of the strategies for redevelopment is now possible.
http://www.oecd.org//tds/bis/brownfields.htm
Groundwork Trust, of which there are now 7 in the U.S. modeled after the UK's 43. Groundwork is the UK's leading social and environmental partnership organization. Comprising a network of more than 40 independent Trusts across the UK and a national office (Groundwork UK) based in Birmingham.
http://www.groundwork.org.uk/
The Spatial Planning Department is part of the Department of the Danish Ministry of Environment and Energy. The Spatial Planning Department administers the Planning Act in close cooperation with Denmark's 14 counties and 275 municipalities and serves as the national authority for spatial planning. The Spatial Planning Department also advises the Minister of Environment and Energy on specific cases related to spatial planning.
http://www.mem.dk/lpa/English/Index.htm
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